Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has dealt with the issue to some degree in terms of workforce planning. We all accept the need for physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists and speech and language therapists, but from what he said, there probably has been a failure in the Department of Health or wherever else to come forward and say it needs certain services. I acknowledge what the Minister said about the medical programme and what is being planned for the future. Does he foresee a situation in the next four or five years that we will have enough throughput to give us what we need as regards these particular positions that are needed for disability services and in other areas?